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Old 10-28-2006, 09:21 PM   #1
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Anyone running power compact and metal halide?


I have a 75 gallon reef in the works, just starting its life. Currently i have 260wats of powercompact lighting, 2 10k and 2 actinic. Ive been told that for some corals and anenomes that this wont be enough light. Is that true? I plan on keeping a wide variety of corals, and at least one anenome so before i get everything i would like to make sure i have the correct lighting. I am thinking about adding metal halides to my system, but i dont want to get rid of my PC's at the same time, cause i just spent all that money on them. So my question is would it be ok to run a 48'' PC 260watt with 2 175watt metal halide hqi 20k?

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Old 10-28-2006, 09:30 PM   #2
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sounds like a plan to me. 175's should be fine. expecially with the amount of PC lighting also.

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Old 10-28-2006, 09:31 PM   #3
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so i should just try an grab 2 24'' 175watts?
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Old 10-28-2006, 09:35 PM   #4
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or another 48'' system that has 2 metal halides and set it up with my PC 48'' as well
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